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Provides functionality that deals with database interaction.
The responsibilities of this package are database connection management
and CRUD operations. It is based on the 
<i><a href="http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/tableDataGateway.html">
Table Data Gateway </a></i>pattern. 
See also the <i><a href="http://java.sun.com/blueprints/patterns/DAO.html">Data Access Object 
(DAO)</a></i> pattern.
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